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progressive
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Hillbilly Elegy
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- Mom became progressively angrier and then snapped.
p. 84.8 *progressively = increasingly
- We called ourselves the island of misfit toys, as there was no real unifying force to our team—a conservative hillbilly from Appalachia, the supersmart daughter of Indian immigrants, a black Canadian with decades' worth of street smarts, a neuroscientist from Phoenix, an aspiring civil rights attorney born a few minutes from Yale's campus, and an extremely progressive lesbian with a fantastic sense of humor, among others—but we became excellent friends.
p. 201.1 *progressive = favoring liberal political change
Definitions:
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(progressive as in: progressive decline) gradually advancing or becoming more severe
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(progressive as in: progressive ideas) supporting new ideas and reforms, especially in politics, and less concerned about unintended consequences of changing evolved institutions
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Progressive tax refers to a system of taxation in which the percent of income taxed increases with higher income. The terms, progressive education or progressive school are sometimes used to refer to more modern educational techniques such as stressing experience and self-expression over rote learning. In 1924, there was a political party in the United States called the Progressive Party. For other more specialized senses (including meanings related to eyeglass lenses, music, and grammar), see a comprehensive dictionary or Wikipedia.